Sporting my sexy Warlord gear

I sported this gear all the way up to AQ. Exiled, my guild at the time, started as a PVP guild and we excelled at churning and burning High Warlords. I was one of the last people in the guild to make the grind, as it became even worse of a grind once AV was changed from the multi-day slog to the quick piece of shit that it is today. This allowed people to bot AV 24/7 and pull in more honor than organized PVP groups could running WSG over and over again (the method Exiled used to make HWLs). - As a guild we started raiding and went almost exclusively PVE, eventually working our way up to the doors of Naxx just prior to BC launching.

Warlord Gaulum - God that grind sucked!

In Vanilla WoW, PVP ranking was against all the other players in your faction on your server. Getting this high required 40+ hours of PVP a week, and there was always a chance somebody would put in more time and get more honor than you, which could set you back weeks. I ended up getting sick before I could make High Warlord, so I never got the HWL weapons... until they gave them to everybody right before BC launched.
(You'll notice #1 was also in Exiled)